Furniture-brace.



A. WANNER, J11. FURNITURE BRAGE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26, 1914.

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FURNITURE-BRACE.

Application filed. June 26, 191 1.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERTVVANNER, Jr., acitizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the countyof New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Furniture-Braces, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to means for bracing joints in furniture andother structures and it consists in a novel brace so constructed as torequire but the minimum of cost to manufacture and to impart unusualstrength to the joint to which it is applied.

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawing in itsadaptation to the oint between the seat-ring or frame and one of theback legs of a chair of the bentwood type, such joint representing atype wherein, without bracing means, in service the maintaining of theparts in permanent or rigid relation to each other is substantiallyimpossible to attain.

In said drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the seat-ring andback-leg joint of a chair of the bent-wood type, with the improved bracein position thereon; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the brace; Fig. 3 arear elevation thereof; and, Fig. 4: a vertical sectional view of saidbrace.

a designates the ring forming the frame of the seat of a chair of thebentwood type, and Z2 is one of the back legs of such chair.

The improved brace includes the upper and upwardly projecting member 0,the lower and downwardly projectin member (Z, said members beingarranged substantially parallel with each other, the intermediate member6 which is arranged at an incline and connects members 0 and (Z, and theangular wings 7, one at each side of the intermediate member 0.

Member 0 is formed on the side thereof adjacent to the plane in whichlies the mem ber (Z with a bearing bead or flange 0' along so much ofits margin or edge as is free, whereby to strengthen said member; saidmember is formed with a vertical slot 0.

Member 6 is concavo-conveX, by prefer ence, its relatively under sidehaving the convexity, whereby to impart strength to the bracket andimprove its appearance.

Member d is part-cylindrical in elevation, its concave sidecorresponding to the flanged or beaded side of member 0, so that it isSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Serial No. 847,425.

equally adapted to flat, angular or cylindrical surfaces. It has a holecl.

The wings f are right angular in form, the upper edgeof each beinghorizontal and the rearward edge vertical and merginginto thecorresponding edge of member 03.

The bracket, as thus described, is prefer ably stamped out of one pieceof sheet metal, whereby to cheapen the bracket and give it lightness,with strength.

The bracket is assembled with the ring a and le b of the chair in themanner shown in Fig. 1, where g is a lag screw passed through the slot 0of member 0 and into the ring and leg, so that these three parts aresecurely bound together, it being a washer between the head of the lagscrew and member 0 of the bracket, and 2' is an ordinary wood screwintroduced through hole (Z of member d and driven into the leg 0. Inassembling the bracket with the leg and ring the wings are fitted wellinto the angle formed between the surface of the leg and the undersurface of the ring, so that the ring bears downwardly on and is thussupported by said wings.

it will be understood that the object of the slot 0 is to permit the lagscrew to be passed through member 0 at any such elevation as conditionsmay require.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is 1. A brace for joints of the classdescribed including an upper and a lower member in substantiallyparallel vertical planes and each having an opening for a securingdevice, and an inclined concavoconvex intermediate member, said membersbeing integral.

2. A. brace for joints of the class described including an upper and alower member in substantially parallel vertical plane and each having anopening for a securing device, and an inclined concavoconvexintermediate member, said members being integral, the underneath side ofthe intermediate member being its convex side.

3. A brace for joints of the class described including an upper and alower member arranged i substantially vertical planes and each having anopening for a securing device, the upper member having a marginalbearing flange on the side thereof facing the plane of the lower memberand the lower member being part-cylindrical in plan, and an inclinedconcavo-convex intermediate member, said members being integral.

4. A brace for joints of the class described including an upper member,a lower member having its upper end below the lower end of the uppermember, said members being in substantially parallel vertical planes,and each having an opening. for a securing device, an intermediatemember joining the first two members, and upstanding lateral angularwings on the intermediate member, said members and the Wings beingintegral.

5. A brace for joints of the class described including an upper member,a lower member having its upper end below the lower end of the uppermember, said members being in substantially parallel vertical planes andeach having an opening for a securing device, an intermediate memberjoining the first two members, and upstanding lateral angular wings onthe intermediate member, said members and the wings being stamped from asingle piece of sheet metal.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT WANNER, J R.

Witnesses:

CHAS. E. WALTER, A. J. BAUNN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

